The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1887-02-24
Bora 70 s:as-y and Keep Rouse.

TIE e1i of = Tciesaa Is 10 marry and
raise GP q family She starts out in
this direction when she carries doll in
childhood Your girl who leaves home
slad goes CIT for herself does SO because
she has failed TO find the man she wants
to marry. BY and BY she does find him,
and when she docs she drops everything
and goes with him. She stops short in
her music. her sctiHg, her art, her liter.-
ture. or whatever il is, because after ali
her instinct tells her 10 marry and she
follows her instinct instead OF her rca-
son.
A msn can marry and go ahead in
the particular pursuit or profession he
had chosen, but the woman stops and
subjects everything TO the one duty Of
wifehood. That is the reason women
do not succeed as we'll as men. They
fall short. Grant all this for the sake
Of argument. Admit that it is the
mission Of woman 10 marry and raise
up family. But l am nov writing
about the exceptions There are excep-
tions 10 all classes all rules, .ll theories
and al PHILOSOPHERS! Most women 90
marry young, and that is right. That
is as far as most of them want TO get.
They are fitted for this sort of life and
have no desire or fitness for another.
But are you going TO make one kind
OF s. giri dc this when il is a strait-jacket
and an aboniination to her? In other
words, is she 10 marry simply for the
sake of marrying, and '.set,ie down"
simply for the sake of settling down?
Why not allow her to follow her natural
bent as well as TIE young man? True,
SIZE may. as my objector says, find some
msn while herself following success
fGl career whom she viii love and whom
she viii marr:, thus cutting short work
that might otherwise have been rounded
and made complete. True, women are
as completely successful as men III the
more independent pursuits OF litH. But
the point which | wish to make clear
and emphatic IS that society, and the
woman herself, and the man she marries,
and ali directly or remotely concerned.
are the better for her having done even
something for herself, however little.
Irepeat that the self-reliant womsn
Is ciyilizer. The busy world is inl-
proved by her having been a particips-
tor. Her words are gentle and kind,
and her presence is restraint TO the
headioag inpetuosity OF men. Even
though she may not remain long with
us-silgie, let Us he thankful that she
has come at al. # she fails in love and
marries, even at the sacrifice cf sn IL
dependent career, her lie after sll IS
not in vain. Fer own views have been
bcoadened. her sympathies have been
deepeHed, her capacity for employment
made greater. and her scope for useful
ness widcncd. say again and again,
Jet the ambitious girl see what she can
DC tor herself iToGGa's Journal.
The farmers of Arizona. in digging
their irrigation canals, find themselves
mere irnitators, on small scale, of tbs
Unknown people who once occupied the
country.
The massive iron chest in which the
manuscript of Domesday Book was for
incrly kept is still preserved il the Brit
ish Office cf Public Records, and it viii
be an object of curiosity at the coming
celebration OF the S01!ii Domesday an
n;rersary.
David Tyson, Clay County Gcor-
gian, wishing to move and having no
means bat two-oX wagon and one
steer, yoked himself alongside of the !
steer and did his part in pulling a load i
Of LOCO pounds over seventeen miles CT /
country road.
The number OF insane persons in the |
asylums aud almshouses CT New York !
State is 80 per cent greater than it was
:iyo years ago. This increase comes al /,
most wholly from the shipment of in-i
sane men and women to this country
rom Europe.